That one moment (370 hits)
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Submitted by Nyxmar (View user info) at 2007-07-29 14:43:43 EDT
Its that one moment when everything in your life changes. The before is perfectly normal, or at least what passes for normal, the after is when the world no longer makes sense. You always go back to that one point, and wonder, what if I change it right here. Would this fix my life, would this change things. We've developed a lot of bullshit over the years to deal with these moments. It was fate, God's grand plan, that's how it was supposed to be.
What if it wasn't. What if, just this once in your sorry life, you fucked up, you changed things. Is it truly that scary to believe that we have the power to effect the world? Why do we shortchange ourselves? Are we not rational thinking human beings? Sometimes I feel descending from apes would be to good for us, more like we descended from ants. Always scurrying around and doing the low level mind numbing work of a society. Always completely oblivious to the world around us, just focused on the task at hand and that is all.
I wonder if death cures this. At the moment of death are we suddenly aware of our surroundings? Do we see and feel the world and people around us? Is the afterlife an exercise in mental freedom as this world is an exercise in mental frustration. Were we born deficient? Able to slightly sense what the world could be, but never experience it for ourselves. If we can fuck up our personal lives, can we fuck up society as whole? I wonder if we did indeed fucked up somewhere? Did we change things? Did we create our own future? As we've developed all this technology did we suddenly just find ourselves at odds with other people and the physical world around us.
At what point in our culture did we decide that human interaction no longer mattered. Was it because actually facing someone is hard. Have we become cowards hiding behind cell phones and email, content to watch reality TV, which in itself is a stupid concept. Have we become unable to experience life for selves and now watch copies of what we think life should be? Where was that moment? Why did we fuck it up. Can we go back?
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Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2008-01-12 16:21:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-07-30 04:20:54 EDT (#)
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Meh,
Go study Classical Philosophy or Meta-Physics.
Most of these questions have been asked (and, on occasion, answered) in a much more intelligent fashion than any of us could think of on our own...
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-07-30 01:11:22 EDT (#)
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Some mysteries are better left, unsolved.
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2007-07-29 19:32:31 EDT (#)
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I can't exactly comprehend the point you're trying to make with all these questions... there probably is no point.
Questions shouldn't always be answered...
"Were we born deficient? Able to slightly sense what the world could be, but never experience it for ourselves."
I like this, though.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-07-29 17:20:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-07-29 16:42:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-07-29 15:25:49 EDT (#)
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Ideas.